Sean A. Watkins | Founder + Director
Sean A. Watkins (they/them) is a nonbinary Brooklyn-based consultant, storyteller, creative director, and is the founder and owner of Agency of Joy. With over 15 years of experience across the nonprofit and social justice movement worlds, they are a dedicated believer in a better world and leads with wholistic instincts, matched with a keen eye and ear.
As a consultant, they implement holistic strategies to help organizations and groups bring their visions to life and engage audiences online. As a facilitator and public speaker, they tap into the energy of any audience connecting story and purpose to inspire action for all involved.
With their captivating smile, dynamic voice of reason, and youthful love of pop culture, Sean promotes a joyful, life-affirming perspective of social justice and champions a unique vision of radical imagination that challenges how people navigate race, sexuality, gender, and more.
Angel Bautista| Project Consultant
Angel Bautista (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary person of color based in Queens, New York. A creative at heart, Angel’s work as a multidisciplinary digital media professional strives for both authenticity and innovation, resulting in content that transcends the rest.
Moving through the nonprofit sector in tandem with grassroots initiatives, Angel has offered their skills in communications towards movements working to uplift and empower marginalized communities. Whether it’s social media management, graphic design, video production, or other channels for connection, their efforts are grounded in their vision for communities of care and joy. Angel spends their free time exploring the city, chasing after the tastiest meals, and dipping their toes in various forms of art.
Ena Coleman | Project Consultant
Ena Coleman is a community builder, writer, motivational speaker, social strategist & digital manager who thrives on supporting dynamic organizations, with an emphasis on women of color-led initiatives, by helping them present the human side of their brand to their digital audience.
At the end of a 20 year-long career as a supply chain specialist, Ena seized an opportunity beyond her corporate scope and took the leap into the world of online community management and social media marketing, working on major political campaigns and with social justice nonprofits all centering women of color. In three short, but impactful years, Ena has created a business building a community that gives women who, like her, crave a space to root for one another and work together to reach their highest goals. A world where humble is overrated and amazing is the standard.
Born, raised and currently residing in Long Beach, CA, Ena is a mom, a wife, and a self-proclaimed networking queen with a natural ability to connect with strangers and build lasting business and personal relationships (even in our new virtual reality). In her free time, you can find her cheering for the success of the woman next to her, running after an almost 2-year old, or quite possibly taking a nap.
Asha Grant | Project Consultant
Asha Grant (she/hers) is a Black, queer freelance writer, community librarian, digital media creative producer, and consultant. She is deeply invested in amplifying the voices of marginalized communities and the power of progressive online outreach.
Asha’s professional background in social justice organizing, movement work, and qualitative research inform her creative process, values, and project collaborations. Her work includes social creative consulting and management for two podcasts, NATAL and The BIG We.
Asha has been featured in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Oprah Magazine, and Shondaland.com, is a graduate of Spelman College and Teachers College, Columbia University, and joyful project consultant for Agency of Joy.
She currently resides in her hometown of Los Angeles as the founder of The Salt Eaters Bookshop, a bookstore prioritizing books, comics, and zines by and about Black women, femmes, and non-binary people.
Ahmad Saeed | Project Designer
Ahmad (they/them) is a designer and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. They specialize in visual identity + social design. Ahmad approaches design solutions with a keen understanding of translating a brand’s narrative to create new visual language that speaks to a digital audience. Most recently Ahmad has worked to establish the visual identity for the Brooklyn-based mutual aid fund organization For The Gworls servicing the Black trans community. In their free time, Ahmad is producing music with friends or studying herbalism and aromatherapy.